his departure, upon agreement for bonds to save him harmless of the fifteenth and tenths and all other duties."

Salaries were paid at Lady-Day and Michaelmas, and we conclude that Dyos had received nothing since Sept. 29, 1558, the last pay-day under Mary. He evidently contemplated "departure "when the magistrates wrote on Oct. 14, 1559, and when the Council were assured of it they gave him a portion of the amount claimed. He asked for 301, they paid him less than 201; and seventeen years afterwards he sued for and recovered the balance-137. 178. 6d. This sum they had probably spent on Protestant preachers, and felt justified in deducting from the stipend of the Vicar, whom they had never wanted and whose services they considered to be dispensed with at Mary's death. Protestants, we may be sure, officiated in the interval between the " departure of Dyos and the appointment of a new Vicar, Master John Bretchgirdle, in Jan. 1561.

marks. Ap Williams' mark resembles
a church-gable and may mean Holy Church;
Tyler's is a circle containing a circle,
with a common centre, divided by a cross
and may signify the Trinity; Shakespeare's
is a glover's compasses and denotes, no
(corrupted
doubt, "God encompasseth us
"Goat and
in a less religious age into
Compasses "!) Shakespeare's mark is
daintily drawn, and does not give the
impression of illiteracy.

Squire Clopton, the champion of the Catholic party, must have keenly felt the change from Mary to Elizabeth. He had taken part in the Coronation feast of Mary on Oct. 1, 1553, serving the wafers at the Queen's table and having for his fee "all the instruments as well of silver or other metal for making of the same wafers and also all the napkins and other profits thereunto appertaining. On Jan. 31, 1559, rather more than a fortnight after the Coronation of Elizabeth, he buried his wife in the parish We know something of the personnel of church of Stratford; and less than a year the Stratford Chamber at the time of the later, on Jan. 4, 1560, he signed his will and dispute with Dyos. The Court Leet was died, leaving instructions that he should held on Oct. 6, 1559, eight days before the be interred in the same place. Their bodies letter of the magistrates was written from were laid, no doubt, in what is sometimes Coughton. Adrian Quyny was sworn Bailiff, called "the Clopton Chapel," in the east end and his colleagues were William Whateley, of the north aisle, behind the handsome High Alderman; John Taylor, John Shake- monument built for himself by Sir Hugh speare, William Tyler and William Smith, Clopton. There is nothing to mark the haberdasher, Constables; Humfrey Plymley grave. Any intention the heir, William and John Wheeler, Chamberlains; Thomas Clopton, may have cherished of erecting Dickson alias Waterman, and Roger Greene, a tomb was probably prevented by the Tasters; Richard Sharpe and William difficult years that followed for himself and Butler, Serjeants-at-the- Mace; William his children. He inherited the bulk of the Trowt and Henry Featherston, Leather Sealers. The Serjeants, and in a less degree the Leather Sealers, were permanently, though pro forma annually, appointed. The rest were chosen more or less in succession and according to seniority, but there is no mistaking their Protestant complexion. Adrian Quyny, John Wheeler and John Shakespeare were ultra-Protestant, and some of the others were hardly less pronounced in their convictions.

The minutes of this Leet are in the Gothic hand of Symons and are witnessed by the

affeerors

- Richard Biddle, Lewis

ap

Williams, John Wheeler, William Tyler and John Shakespeare. Symons has written the names at the bottom of the page, on the right hand, and the affeerors have attached their signature or mark. Biddle and Wheeler have signed; Lewis ap Williams, Tyler and Shakespeare have made their

property, including manors and lands in
Ryon Clifford, Bridgetown, Clopton, Ingon,
Welcombe, Bearley and elsewhere in War-
wickshire. His unmarried sisters, Anne,
Eleanor and Rose, received 200 marks
(£113 6s. 8d.) apiece, and his married sister,
Elizabeth Arundel, 100l. Among the credi-
tors were William Hopkins, draper of
Coventry, and William Tyler, Rafe Cawdrey,
Lewis ap Williams, Francis Harbage and
John Shakespeare's neighbour, William Smith
The wit.
the harberdasher, of Stratford.
nesses included William Bott the agent.
Immediately after Squire Clopton's death
(if not shortly before it) his son and his wife
removed from New Place to Clopton House,
and William Bott, as we have seen, left
Snitterfield for New Place.

EDGAR I. FRIPP.

(To be continued.)

"LUCASIA." (See 11 S. vii. 228.)-MR. sentence certainly suggests that he had done so to one of them, and promptly had his head punched. For we may say of boys, as Aevum non Dr. Kound said of the Irish, animum mutant.

J. J. FOSTER's inquiry about the meaning of Lucasia's Portrait,' a work ascribed to Samuel Cooper, has so far met with no reply in N. & Q.' The portrait is the subject of eight riming triplets under the title To Mr. Sam. Cooper, having taken Lucasia's Picture given December 14, 1660,' on pp. 158, 159 of Mrs. Katherine Philips's Poems (1669). "Lucasia was the poetess's romantic name for her friend Miss Anne Owen of Landshipping who entered the "Society of Friendship on Dec. 28, 1651, and was married to a son of Sir Thomas Hanmer in May, 1662. See Mr. Gosse's essay on The Matchless Orinda' in his "Seventeenth Century Studies.'

EDWARD BENSLY.

GREY IN SENSE OF BROWN.-This meaning is not clearly shewn in the N.E.D.,' but there is no doubt about it. "Grey, Latin grisius, often means brown, as do its equivalents in French and German. Brown paper is often called grey paper. The brown habit of the Grey Friars is described as russett " in 1406. Brown loaves are called panes grisei in 1437-8. Pain bis is the modern French term for brown bread. Pisae grisiae, c. 1450, were the produce of the common grey or field pea, Pisum arvense, and are distinctly brown when ripe. The N.E.D.' has several quotations for grey-eyed," which probably means, having eyes with brown irises. Eyes grey in the ordinary sense would scarcely be remarkable enough to deserve the epithet. J. T. F. Winterton, Lines.

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"REX ILLITERATUS EST ASINUS CORONATUS. (See 12 S. vii. 519.)-From the review of Roger Bacon's edition of the 'Secretum Secretorum it appears that Bacon noted that Henry I. used to make the above remark to his father and brothers. No doubt he had in mind a passage in William of Malmesbury's 'De Gestis Regum Anglorum:

"Itaque pueritiam ad spem regni litteris muniebat; subinde, patre quoque audiente, jactitare proverbium solitus, 'Rex illiteratus, asinus coronatus.' Ferunt quinetiam genitorem, non praetereunter notata morum ejus compositione quibus vivacem prudentiam aleret, ab uno fratrum laesum et lacrymantem, his animasse. Ne fleas, fili, quoniam et tu rex eris."" (ed. Stubbs, Rolls' Series, II., 467-8).

Although William of Malmesbury does not say that Henry used to make this pointed remark to his brothers, the last

Apparently the gibe at an unlearned king. was already proverbial, and its origin may be lost in antiquity. The author of the Chronica de Gestis Consulum Andegavorum' attributed it to Fulk the Good, 8 canon of Count of Anjou. Fulk was St. Martin of Tours, and liked, to take part in the services at the festival of the Saint. The King of France visiting Tours on such an occasion, his nobles jeered at the Count, and Louis himself followed their example:

Rex autem Franciae, cum aliis deludens, nobile opus viri derisit; quo audito, comes Andegavorum litteras hujusmodi formam habentes scripsit: "Regi Francorum comes Andegavorum. Noveritis, domine, ('Chroquia illitteratus rex est asinus coronatus." niques des Comtes d'Anjou,' ed. Marchegay et Salmon, p. 71).

But probably we are concerned with one of those stories which are revived at intervals under various guises and attributed to any one to whom they may seem appropriate. Every reader must have across instances of this practice, and Barrie has 2 hit at its occurrence in modern journalism, in 'When a Man's Single.' G. H. WHITE.

23 Weighton Road, Anerley.

Queries.

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WE must request correspondents desiring in formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

ballad NEW STYLE.-A contemporary (Political Ballads,' ii. 311) opens with this couplet :

:

In seventeen hundred and fifty-three The Style it was changed to Popery. In fact the Style was changed as from Jan. 1, 1751 (Old Style), which, in accordance with 24 G. II. c. 23, became Jan. 1, 1752. Nicolas, however, like the couplet quoted above, gives Jan. 1, 1753 in two places as the commencement of New Style in England. I am puzzled to explain an apparent inaccuracy; though inasmuch as the New Style year, Jan. 1-Dec. 31, 1752, was incomplete by the elision of September 3-13 inclusive, in accordance with the Act of G. II., it can be stated with accuracy that

he was a friend of Mr. Cole Hamilton, an
Irish falconer, from whom he was in the
habit of receiving Irish peregrines for grouse
hawking. In a letter dated Oct. 20, 1862,
Mr. Knox, whom I knew very well, informed
me that he had twice seen a goshawk in the
did not occur to me at that time to ask him
Forest of Mar. I now much regret that it
for the information which I now desire to
obtain.
J. E. HARTING.

OLD CONTRIBUTION ΤΟ 'CHAMBERS'S
JOURNAL.'-Perhaps forty years ago there
appeared in Chambers's Journal an article
or story-the title of which I cannot recall.
The tale is of a man who in London comes
across an office of a society founded about
the time of the Lisbon earthquake (1755),
for the relief of sufferers by that disaster.
He finds that although the organization has
long lost its usefulness, it still has some
invested funds, the interest on which is
entirely devoted to paying the salary of the
Secretary,' who thus holds a profitable

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sinecure.

I shall be very glad if any reader can refer me, even to the year in which the story appeared. BURDOCK.

New York.

DOUGLAS OF DORNOCK. (See 5 S. vii. 243). In Mr. C. T. Ramage's account of this family, now followed by Burke, Archibald Douglas of Dornock is given as having died s.p. about the middle of the last century.

In Burke's Peerage,' 1921, under Cloncurry, Valentine Browne, second Lord Cloncurry, is said to have married—

'Secondly, June 30, 1811, Emily, third dau. of Archibald Douglas of Dornock (cousin to Charles, third Duke of Queensberry)."

This lady was sister of the Rev. Archibald Douglas who married, as her third husband, Lady Susan Murray (Dunmore).

COL. BONHAM (FALCONER).-In 'Gamebirds and Wildfowl,' 1850, one of the delightful books written by that good sportsman and naturalist the late Mr. A. E. Knox of Trotton, near Petersfield, mention is made of his friend Col. Bonham of the 10th Hussars who for some years rented Scardroy Lodge with about 30,000 acres in Ross-shire, near Strathconnan. This moor was rented not only for grouse-shooting but also for grouse-hawking, a sport to which the Colonel was especially addicted, and for which purpose peregrine falcons were trained and used by him in collabora tion with setters. Knox has indicated several localities in Ireland and Scotland from which these hawks were obtained, and also mentions the fact that Col. Bonham obtained a pair of goshawks (Astur palumbarius) which were bred on the Duke of Gordon's estate at Fochabers, on the Spey. As there are comparatively few instances on record of the nesting of the goshawk in the British Islands, it is regrettable, from the TERRESTRIAL GLOBES. About what naturalist's point of view, that Knox has period did these come into use in schools and not mentioned the year in which Col. elsewhere? I came across a couple of Bonham's birds were taken at Fochabers. miniature ones, dated 1832, in a curiosity I should be very glad if any reader can shop a while ago, measuring one 4 and the supply the date, and at the same time other 2 inches in diameter. Though a furnish any particulars concerning the frequenter of such haunts I have never duration of the Colonel's tenancy of Scard-seen any others, nor can map-sellers give me roy, and give the date of his death. It may any information on the subject. perhaps afford some clue to mention that

Can any reader of 'N. & Q.' give the exact relationship of the Archibald Douglas who is said to have died s.p. to the father of Lady Cloncurry? W. R. D. M.

M. B. H.

DR. WELLS: PAPER ON THE DEW AND coat quite undecipherable. I cannot idenSINGLE VISION.'-In an Italian trans-tify these arms as having belonged to the lation of a treatise published in English families who formerly owned the house, early in the last century about the origin which dates from 1460. of Darwinism, there is mentioned a paper by a Dr. Wells entitled 'On the Dew and Single Vision.'

Researches made in Italy have failed to trace Dr. Wells's paper. Could any reader give an explanation of its somewhat puzzling title (possibly a translation thereof in Italian or French) and a very short general idea of the paper itself? J. GUILLERMIN.

1 Old Broad Street, E.C.

COAT OF ARMS: IDENTIFICATION SOUGHT. Can any reader assist me to identify the following (colours cannot be given as the coat occurs sculptured upon a mantelpiece of Purbeck marble) ::

First and fourth quarters On a chevron between three paws razed five fire-balls or bombs and at the top of the chevron an estoile (or mullet ?).

Second quarter Three bends, and third quarter A chief indented.

The paws have four toes with claws, and might be leopards, lions or otters. On the opposite side the arms of the Ironmongers' Company occur, whilst between them is a

CHARLES S. TOMES. Mannington Hall, Aylsham Norfolk.

SAN SEVERINO. Can any one give me the parentage of Gianetta di San Severino, the wife of Louis d'Enghien, Count of Brienne and Conversana (d. post 1383), whose grandson, Peter de Luxemburg,

Count of St. Pol Brienne and Conversana (d. Aug. 31, 1433) was one of the original knights of the Order of the Golden Fleece (Jan. 10, 1429/30), and grandfather, through Jacquetta, Duchess of Bedford and Countess of Rivers, of Elizabeth Wydville, Queen of MEDINEWS. Edward IV. ?

CONSECRATED ROSES IN COATS OF ARMS.— Have there been any instances of recipients of roses consecrated by the Pope emblazoning these roses in their coats of arms? If so, does the consecrated rose assume a form different from that of the ordinary heraldic rose ? NOLA.

SCOLES AND DUKE FAMILIES.-In St. Mary's Church, Marlborough, Wilts, is a monument with the following inscription :

"Near this Place Lyeth ye Body of Jane, The wife of Robert Scoles of Wroughton, gent., eldest daughter of Andrew Duke of Bulford, Esq. She died November 16th, 1733. Anno Aetat. 41."

Heraldry (in colours): arms of Scoles impaling Duke, namely, Gules, on a chevron between three escallops argent as many mullets of the fields for Scoles. Per fesse argent and azure three chaplets two and one counterchanged for Duke. Who were the parents of Robert Scoles? Any information respecting him and his family would be gratefully received.

Essex Lodge, Ewell.

LEONARD C. PRICE.